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Missing a workout during the OS...which to forego?

Joe MatchetteJoe Matchette
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Hello Team.

If life gets in the way of a workout, how do you all modify your week?  Which workout do you choose to give up?

Specifically, life dictated that I was not going to get today's VO2 bike work.  Tomorrow is supposed to be a VO2_run, but I am strongly considering back-to-back bike workouts.  The main reason being that I feel I get more 'work' on the bike than I do on the run.  Additionally, two weekends ago as I was about to get on my bike for the Long_FTP ride of the weekend, my son asked the irresistible question --- "Dad, will you play with me?"  Hell yes I said yes!!

So, since I know doing a mid-week 'two-a-day' of VO2 bike and run workouts on the same day is probably *not* the Haus answer, what do you all recommend?

(a) - just press on as if I got today's VO2 bike done and stay on schedule by running tomorrow

or 

(b) - do a VO2 ride tomorrow and then pickup the OS plan on Thursday?

Thanks,

Joe

PS - I am in my second week of VO2 work for the Nov Intermediate OS....if that affects your recommendation

Comments

  • Al TruscottAl Truscott

    If I miss, skip, ignore, or otherwise don't do a workout, I have reluctantly learned to just grit my teeth and let it go. I don't make them up or try to cram several together at this time of year - the intensity level of the OS mandates spacing the workouts to get sufficient rest between them. The guilt only lasts about 12 hours or so, and of course, there's the added benefit of making the next workout that much easier!

    "In-season", I absolutely, positively try to arrange my life to make sure I do the long run and the weekend brick each week. Next in line for priority are the interval workouts for running and biking - one day a week on the trainer for me year-round, and a track session a week is also high on my ust do list.

    One of the podcasts for the OS (Week 4, Rest & Recovery) has Coach Rich telling us which elements of a workout we can slack on first in the OS.

  • kefali69kefali69

    In the grand scheme of things, missing a single workout during the OS is not going to derail your gains in the least.  Diminish ...  perhaps slightly ... but not derail.  The other thing that you need to consider is the bigger picture of your week.  Back-to-back bike days followed by only one rest day (Fri) will definitely impact your Sat brick.  You may have to roll the dice and see what happens.  Will the gains of a Wed bike outweigh the potential losses of a Sat blowup?  Hard to say.  Ultimately, it's all recreation, so my vote is to go with your gut and do whatever best satisfies you personally.

  • Coach PatrickCoach Patrick
    The official line is to skip and move on. My personal line is to do the workout that I think matters more to my fitness (providing it doesn't muck things up). But the bottom line is you always play with the kids!
  • kefali69kefali69
    Posted By Patrick McCrann on 27 Jan 2011 08:04 PM

    The official line is to skip and move on. My personal line is to do the workout that I think matters more to my fitness (providing it doesn't muck things up). But the bottom line is you always play with the kids!

    Bingo!  Sport will be there for you until your body falls apart.  Your kids will be be there for you well after your body falls apart.  Give them sufficient reason not to put you in a "home," and the rest is gravy.



     

  • William JenksWilliam Jenks
    I've got one who's 16. In a couple years, he'll still "be there" but not in the same way. I count the days. Fortunately, in the good way, not the bad. I'm sure you could adapt any of those cliches about pain being temporary to raising your kids. :-)
  • rah2774rah2774
    My legs were fried Wed... I skipped the run. And I don't feel at all guilty. I contemplated making it up tonight - but I did that last week and my Sat brick was rougher than usual as a result (also possibly bc of my cleanse). So I'm just gonna say, oh well. It's week 4 of OS. One skipped 45 minute run is not going to make or break my season. I think had I run when I was run down and my quads were burning would have done far more bad things to me!
    my new years res: don't feel guilty if life gets in the way sometimes!
    glad you played with your kiddo!
  • Mike HedmanMike Hedman
    My response to myself is that it's not a missed workout, it's a bonus/banked recovery day. Take the recovery and move forward.
    Mike
  • scott dinhoferscott dinhofer
    I have had the same issues as i cope with the storms and ski weekends. I have decided that somehow skiing is giving me a workout, though i dont know if it is helpful or hurtful. most of what i have been missing is one run over the weekend and some brick runs during the week. i am getting all the bikes done, but some are back to back as i cram them into a 5 day week. February school break i will have to cope with no bike for 6 days, but the ability to run, and skiing hard for six days.

    @justin - we should create a home for aged EN members! we can have endurance races with our walkers!
  • Dave TalloDave Tallo

    A bit late to the q, but I would do the bike/run brick, and then run.  But I'd add 20-30 z2 at the end of the run. 

    The broader comment from posters - a skipped session in an otherwise consistent season is just a cost of doing business - is spot on, though.  I more or less bank on this during the v02 max block. 

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